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Acting CTO Role in a Start-up

SoCal CTO

Roger Smith ) This helps explain where I normally play. My role is to work as part of the team to (1) understand related technologies and technical opportunities, (2) understand and help drive alignment around a vision of where the business should go, and (3) mesh those together to help make disciplined, proactive technical decisions.

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10 Ways Owners Often Jeopardize Their Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

In the interests of helping you work smarter and last longer, I would like to offer my top ten list of key resource drains to avoid in early businesses and startups, based on my years of advising entrepreneurs and my own business experience: Expanding your product line too quickly for scaling. Use multiple small orders at first.

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7 Key Entrepreneur Habits Highlight Execution Ability

Startup Professionals Musings

The best entrepreneurs know what they don’t know, aren’t afraid to ask for business help, and always offer something in return. Sets goals and milestones, with metrics to track progress. Good implementers document and communicate long-term goals, and translate them into daily action items.

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7 Ways To Keep Your Focus On Execution After The Idea

Startup Professionals Musings

As a result, Google has become a verb, and the company is a tech giant with record growth rates and a revenue of $74.5 Set business goals and milestones, and use metrics to track performance. Every team member needs the motivation, training and authority to make day-to-day decisions without review and approval. billion in 2015.

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6 Steps To Move From Inspiration To Business Reality

Startup Professionals Musings

The number is much higher for those who choose to go it alone, without help. Thus, I’m more impressed with entrepreneurs who ask me to review their implementation plan, rather than listen again to their idea. Some dreams sound great, but may not yet be viable or proven with today’s technology.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. Once you build it, they will now ask you about the key metrics that they need proven in order to see if you really are a good investment. " Once you have the metrics defined, it focuses your effort.

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5 Keys Steps For Every Startup Roadmap To Revenue

Startup Professionals Musings

Reports suggest that 90% of today’s shoppers skip marketing pitches, to research online before they buy, and over 50% check user reviews before making a decision. She recommends phone interviews by you, by appointment, with structured questions, and you document results. Include planned measurements and metrics.

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